You can use your Windows 8 laptop as a wireless access point. It is very much different from a AD-HOC network. Ad-Hoc supports wireless connection between computers. But this article will show you how to set up your Windows 8 PC to work as a Hotspot and after that you will able to connect any Wi-Fi enabled smartphone and tablet with it. There are plenty of applications available to use your Windows computer as Hotspot but most of them are paid applications. Here, in Windows 8 you can turn this feature on without using any third party software.

Press Enter. Replace ssid and password with your desired inputs. Other devices need to have this key to connect to this network.

7. So, Hosted Network mode has been set and SSID and Key has been changed successfully. Now start this hosted network by enter the following command netsh wlan start hostednetwork. That’s it.

You can see your newly created hosted network by entering this command : netsh wlan show hostednetwork

You can see Hosted Network mode is “Allowed” and it is already “Started”. SSID, Authentication and Cipher information are also shown there. Maximum of 100 clients can connect to that network. For Windows 8.1 the default value is 20. You can also change this number.

Hi Peter, Please double check your password, You can also assign a new password, if you have forgot your old one. Current Smartphones (Android, Windows or iOS) can easily access WPA2-Personal authentication type hotspots.

PLEASE HELP! ive been trying to do this with my new desktop for the past 2 weeks. i did EVERYTHING in the instructions. android sees wifi, I use correct password (password) android tries to obtain ip address……… eventually gives up and goes on a fail connection loop. PPPPPLEASE HELP 😀

I m using lenovo laptop & internet connection BSNL boradband which is connected directly to my Ethernet port. Ip obtained DHCP mode. I have configured my laptop to access the wifi network in my iphone or other phones. According to the instruction I did the same and showing the same status…wifi started and and showing in phones also.”saifwifi” but phone is not connecting showing password error.I tried many times and m 1000000000000% sure password is ok..M using the same password which I had assign during the configuration. Now the question is 1.what is the prob.why my cell phone is not connecting? 2. Is any wifi card is required when I have facility in my laptop? Please suggest and guide step by step process apart from configuring funda….your help would be appreciated………Thanks in advance……………………….

What about the physical media and cable connection..please guide the physical connection of internet also….I mean the cable which is coming from modem that would be connected to my ethernet (LAN port)?????? because there is no wifi port at all.

hey when i try doing is as per the steps when i enter “netsh wlan start hostednetwork” it says “the groupor resourse is not in the correct form” i tried a lot of times but still it says the same please help me with this

Hi rajashekar, Sorry for late response. make sure you have opened Elevated Command Prompt. Then you need to run this commandnetsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=”ssid” key=”password” I have just done the same thing on my Windows 8 laptop.. it worked. May b you are missing some thing.

Hi Nick, My Laptop is connected via ethernet and I want to share the connection with my tablet and smartphone. I have bridged the connections and created the hosted network. The network connection shows a Local Area Connection *12 which has the ssid name I set. My devices can see this. So far so good. My Local area connection *12 has no internet access. I was wondering if you may be able to suggest a reason why this may be happening?

Hi Alex, As far what i have understood, your laptop is connected to internet via Ethernet. See Step 2, described above. Don’t click on “bridge connections” option, instead follow the steps what I have described above. Now, See the Step 4 dialog box carefully. DHCP must be enabled for your smartphones and Tablets. Don’t use static IPs for those devices.

hi nick i hav a hp laptop i followed all the instructions given above after that my cell is showing the wifi(ssid) but it gets stuck at “obtaining IP address”. i went to the the network sharing window but there in my wifi(ssid) it is showing no internet access now what should i do i m using tata photon Dongal for connecting to internet

If there is “No Internet Access” in your Network Sharing Center, that means there may have problem with your Internet Source ( In this case your Photon dongle). Please double check the connectivity issue.

Hi Nick Thank you for all things i made the wifi network but i am afraid i think it won’t work after shut downing the laptop is it yes or not? How can i make own wifi network to use regularly? Thanking you again

Hi, I had trouble with my connection as well. I could start the service and my phone saw the connection, but it never connected. My solution for it was to go to settings of Wifi Adapter, go to configuration, go to advanced settings, set wireless mode to 802.11b/g instead of n. Then it worked for my phone fine.

There could be many reasons.. 1. Make sure you have entered valid password on your Phone. 2. Check whether your internet connection is working or not. 1. If you are using Windows 8.1, above thing will not work. In that case use mHotspot (Search for ‘mHotspot’ in Google).

hey.. i checked the maximum number of clients allowed for the wifi thing in mine using the command prompt.. you say the default number is 100.. mine is windows 8.1 and the number of clients that came as default is only 1. whereas in my friend’s computer it is 10 (windows 7).. now the question is , how do i increase the number of clients?? please please help…

I am using this almost 6 moths but now suddenly I am unable to access internet and showing the created Local Area Network *14 Activity Sent:400(this varies) Received:0(always). What to do now. Please help me